My MacBook Pro is suddenly getting fake Adobe Flash update popups multiple times a day

I have a habit of dismissing any Adobe Flash notification panel. However, I do look in the System Preferences : Flash Player panel. Select that Flash panel's updates tab, and this is what you should see:

I happen to have the (unnecessary for me) Adobe Pepper Flash (PPAPI) installed too — something I need to remove. I will continue to get legitimate Adobe reminders until both are updated. The Check Now button will let you know if you are current, or offer a link to the real, Adobe Flash site to download either of these Plug-in installers.

There is no post-installation reboot requirement. No browser, or System Preferences panel should be open during the Flash installation process.

If you have come across a fake Adobe Flash installation notice, and have not cleared your browser history, and cache, you will run into that bogus pop-up the next time you run your browser.

I would suggest 2 things

1. Run MalwareBytes to make sure adware had not gotten on your Mac <https://www.malwarebytes.org/>
2. Empty your browser cache, just in case there is some cached Javascript that is triggering these pop-ups

To me this seems like a very critical question that there is no good and easy to find answer for.

I have always had problems with flash. Not that it doesn't work, but that it so often calls for an

update. That got exceedingly ridiculous today when I followed what I usually do for a flash update

and went to the Adobe site, downloaded it, and installed it.

I rebooted the whole system and logged in. Within just a few moments I got the same message

about Flash being out of date ... but I checked and it was the highest up to date rev out there.

So, what is going on here?

When the notice pops-up and says I need to update the site it points me to is an Adobe site. It

is not like it is a fake, or if it is a fake, it is a great job because the URL seems to correctly end in

adobe.com?

Thank you, VikingOSX. I was having an issue with the second update

as your included image shows. I thought there was only one update.

I get so tired of these incessant Flash updates, and I don't think I even

have it enabled, is what also threw me.

I was thinking I had been hacked because there is a certain time on

Yahoo.Com that even without clicks or any kind of entry or interaction

my browser gets redirected to different ad sites. I am not sure that is

hacked so much as just redirected, but against my will with no action.

I've never thought I needed an anti-virus for Mac ... it's a Mac, but with

all the malicious and ransomware stuff out there who knows? Thanks.

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